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Nested face fragment representing fiction, identity, and competing versions.
Fiction · relation
Clock and mansion fragment representing Schattendorf and historical recurrence.
History · time
Circular arrow and orbit fragment representing evidence returning in CASE 1638.
Evidence · return
Literary representationWondrous Travels · The Schattendorf Echoes · The Unnamed Daughter
Screen representation & productionCASE 1638: RECALL · CASE 1638: The Cinematic Machine
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READY NOW · COMPLETESIX-VOLUME LITERARY CYCLE

Wondrous
TravelsQueer/trans literary speculative fiction

Lin Reyes is trying to recover her wife, Nisha. Five island-jurisdictions and one fault-line keep changing what that marriage is allowed to mean.

IIIIIIIVV0

Identity, intimacy, law, price, record, score, witness, and version become different operations performed upon the same relation. Volume I, Compression Nation, is the lead submission unit.

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“Identity recalibrations had improved liquidity. That meant someone was being erased.”

READY NOW · COMPLETE · EN/DESUPERNATURAL HISTORICAL FICTION

The Schattendorf
Echoes

Hermann, Julia, a mansion, and Austria enter the same haunted architecture.

A literary prelude and three novels shaped by the January 1927 Schattendorf shootings, the July Revolt, and the political afterlives of evidence. Authorized English and German parallel texts, a Reader’s Companion, and a Critical Concordance are complete.

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“The station platform held its breath for a train that arrived without the person expected.”

READY NOW · COMPLETE · FIRST PLACEFEATURE SCREENPLAY

CASE 1638: RECALLFeature screenplay, not the developing novel

Gil drinks the brown water. Aguaverde learns that a pattern is not proof, but proof cannot assemble itself.

A civic screwball noir and environmental procedural about public money, damaged credibility, contaminated water, and evidence divided among offices.

2026 SCRIPTAPALOOZA SCREENPLAY COMPETITION · FIRST PLACE

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“The glass comes down. CLINKS against a desk like evidence. GIL (V.O.): Now you know what it tastes like.”

IN PREPARATION · ENGLISH / GERMANILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY

Franz MarcReligion, Art and Modern Europe

How does artistic freedom become possible, and what does it ask of other people?

Religion, painting, household labor, collectors, and war enter a shared history. Maria Marc’s independent work, disagreements, and preservation of the legacy remain central.

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DEVELOPMENT · NOVELLITERARY NOVEL

RECALLA novel in development from the First Place screenplay

The screenplay supplies the public architecture. The novel follows the lives that could not fit inside the hearing, invoice, test result, denial, or shot.

The prose adaptation expands interior narration, documentary fragments, maintenance and medical histories, prior complaints, institutional memory, and the moral difference between what a character believes and what the record can prove.

DEVELOPMENT MATERIALS AVAILABLE FOR REPRESENTATION · EDITORIAL · RESIDENCY · FELLOWSHIP

COMPLETE SCREENPLAY · DEVELOPMENT MATERIALS IN PROGRESSSYSTEMATIC CINEMA PROJECT

CASE 1638: The Cinematic Machine

A complete second feature screenplay in the CASE 1638 body of work. Sarah Chen descends through a recursive archive shaped by sound, family history, prediction, and the 1-6-3-8 pattern.

COMPLETE FEATURE SCREENPLAY · SUPPORTING PROJECT MATERIALS IN DEVELOPMENT · CREATED AND DEVELOPED SOLELY BY LIANA MARIE SIVE

ADDITIONAL · THREE COMPLETE STORIESEXACT-LENGTH SHORT FICTION

Three CASE 1638 Stories

Three complete short stories, each exactly 1,638 words: Optimal Timing, Out of Place, and Found in Archives.

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PUBLIC NOW · COMPLETE FICTIONSATIRE / SHORT FICTION

Before Sive / After Sive

The literary calendar has been corrected.

The BS/AS mini-world grows from The First Fault-Line into a fictional committee address and the complete story The Last Book Published Before Literature Began.

ADDITIONAL · COMPLETE STAGE PLAYSTAGE PLAY

Double or Nothing

“The academy is gone. The teaching isn’t.”

A systematic theatre text about correctness without protection, intelligence without rescue, and what remains to be taught after the institution closes.

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“The system closes. Whether you’re right or wrong. Whether you deserve it or not. The only question is: who do you take with you when it does?”

READY NOW · AGENT-READY · APPROX. 90,000 WORDSLITERARY BIBLICAL CRITICISM

The Unnamed DaughterFrom Eden to the Authorized Version

The book stops where the authorized story moves on, then stays with the figure it has required, used, or refused to name.

The substantive revision defines levels of claim, introduces an agency continuum, follows counter-voices within tradition, and asks how narrative choices acquire institutional force.

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“Why did Judas need to kiss him?… But the question has an answer, and the answer is strange. The kiss was not necessary.”

DEVELOPMENT · HISTORYECONOMIC / BUSINESS HISTORY

The Fall of the House of ChickeringWhen Time Stopped Behaving Like Money

An economic history of authority, credit, legitimacy, succession, advertising, and nineteenth-century American piano manufacture, drawing on production registers, a large private advertising corpus, William Steinway’s diary, and C. H. W. Foster’s working papers.

DEVELOPMENT · CULTURAL NONFICTIONCULTURAL NONFICTION

GiftingWorking title

A gift can carry affection and still impose a debt.

A developing book about value, obligation, intimacy, memory, status, timing, and the possibility of giving badly while meaning well.

ADDITIONAL · SUBSTANTIAL PRACTITIONER MANUSCRIPTTAX LAW / REFERENCE

Home Sale Taxation & IRC §121

A home sale is not one number. It is an intersection of ownership, use, basis, recapture, family, time, benefits, and reporting.

A comprehensive practitioner text on the exclusion, partial exclusions, basis, depreciation recapture, nonqualified use, mixed use, divorce, inheritance, installment sales, §1031 interactions, forms, reporting, audit defense, and the AGI cascade, including Social Security taxation, Medicare IRMAA, NIIT, passive-loss limits, and premium-tax-credit consequences.

WRITTEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN IRS ENROLLED AGENT WITH TWO DECADES OF REPRESENTATION EXPERIENCE

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